The Tudors (TV Series)

His Majesty, the King (2007)

Jonathan Rhys Meyers: King Henry VIII

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Quotes 

• King Henry VIII : [upon seeing the harm from the jousting accident]  You almost lost an eye.

  Anthony Knivert : [laughingly]  Never use that one much anyway.

• King Henry VIII : [during a diner-dance]  Mister Wyatt.

  Thomas Wyatt : [gets up and bows]  Your Majesty.

  King Henry VIII : I hear you're a poet.

  Thomas Wyatt : I write poems, I don't know how to be "a poet".

  King Henry VIII : I've read some, I like them.

  Thomas Wyatt : My Lord, I don't know what to say.

  King Henry VIII : [whispering quietly up close]  Were you in love with Anne Boleyn?

  Thomas Wyatt : [nervous]  I...

  King Henry VIII : Cardinal Wolsey tells me you were once engaged.

  Thomas Wyatt : No, that's not true.

  King Henry VIII : Did you love her?

  Thomas Wyatt : [nervously]  Lady Anne is so beautiful, it is the duty of every man to love her. Of course I loved her, but from a distance. Personally, I have a wife.

• King Henry VIII : [about his sister, Margaret]  Charles, as you love me, take care of her.

  Charles Brandon : I will. Have no doubts, I shall treat her as if she were my own sister.

• King Henry VIII : [after he gets hit in the face during a joust]  Come on, Anthony, let's do it again!

  [He gets back on his horse and rides around the jousting pit] 

  King Henry VIII : People of England, your King is unharmed!